R. Lee Ermey Quotes
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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Our number one priority is to spend every peso possible to include those who are currently excluded.
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I have a vernacular house on the seaside in Northumberland and an Edwardian semi in south Manchester. They're both exactly as big as they need to be. I can't be doing with an ostentatious, big house - you can only be in one room at a time.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
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In Fall Out Boy, we were all playing with our pop punk influences, so that was always within that kind of framework.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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When Andrew Ridgeley first met my family, he heard my mom calling me "Yorgos." He just abbreviated it to Yog, and unfortunately it stuck. I hated it is a teenager. It was not the most glamorous-sounding name in the world.
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I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!
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I think we really need a movement to drive how popular culture understands the issues that feminists care about. When I think about the LGBT movement for example, they have had a really intentional strategy to try to change images and representation of LGBT people in the media and the culture. It really moved the dial politically. That's what is needed in the women's movement - a strategy that can drive awareness and culture change.
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I don't have a driving desire to be all encompassing and world powerful or anything.
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To get rid of greed, you should try to do some sort of a collective social work.
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It's been a pretty fun ride, to tell you the truth.
